ISMB2006 Alternative Splicing Special Interest Group meeting
August 4-5, 2006

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Program

August 4, 2006 (Day 1)

08.00-09.00	Registration
09.00	Plenary Session - Shoba Ranganathan (Chair)
09.00-09.10	Welcome - Shoba Ranganathan
09.10-10.30	“The Complex World of Splicing Regulatory Sequences" Gil Ast
10.30-11.00	Coffee Break
11.00	Genomics 1 - Sandro de Souza (Chair)
11.00-11.30	"Genome-Wide Identification of Alternative Isoforms Targeted by Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay in Drosophila" Steven Brenner
11.30-12.00	"Genome-wide Prediction of Novel Alternative Splicing Events" Gunnar Rätsch
12.00-13.30	Lunch Break
13.30	Genomics 2 - Sandro de Souza (Chair)
13.30-14.00	“The consequences of alternative splicing on biological pathways” Melissa Cline
14.00-14.30	"Patterns in Alternative Splicing - Interaction between splicing and transcription components" Eugene Melamud
14.30-15.00	"Pervasive unproductive splicing of SR proteins associated with ultraconserved elements" Steven Brenner
15.00-15.30	"Hundreds of new alternatively spliced variants discovered in the C.elegans genome" M. Tabish
15.30-16.00	Coffee Break
16.00	Panel Discussion - Win Hide (Chair)
16.30-17.00	"“Data Models for alternative splicing” Oliver Hofmann
17.00-18.30	Discussion

August 5, 2006 (Day 2)

09.00	Regulation of Alternative Splicing 1 -  Eduardo Eyras (Chair)
09.00-9.30	"Correlation of ESE prediction programs with in vivo splicing behaviour in three different cell lines of hMLH1 and hMSH2 missense mutations" Alessandro Stella
09.30-10.00	"Choosing the End: Regulation of Alternative 3' Splice Sites" Martin Akerman
10.00-10.30	"Identifying Splicing Regulatory Elements using Correlation with Expression" Debopriya Das
10.30-11.00	Coffee Break
11.00	Regulation of Alternative Splicing 2 -  Eduardo Eyras (Chair)
11.00-11.30	"Differentiated evolutionary rates in alternative exons and the implications for splicing regulation" Eduardo Eyras
11.30-12.00	"Comparison of Alternative Splicing Structures in Eukaryotes" Michael Sammeth
12.00-13.30	Lunch Break
13.30	Experimental and Computational Platforms - Shoba Ranganathan (Chair)
13.30-14.00	“HOLLYWOOD: a comparative alternative splicing database for studying mechanisms mediated by exonic splicing enhancers and silencers” Dirk Holste
14.00-14.30	"SAGE/MPSS Bioinformatics: going after splicing variants differentially expressed in tumors" Pedro Galante
14.30-15.00	"Using the Affymetrix Exon Array to investigate variation in alternative splicing in a human population" Jacek Majewski
15.00-15.30	To be confirmed
15.30-16.00	Coffee Break
16.00-16.30	"Selection of splicing variant candidates in breast tumor through a microarray platform" Maria Rangel
16.30-17.00	"Informatics Issues in Affymetrix Human Exon Array Data Analysis" Fan Meng
17.00-17.30	Summary Shoba Ranganathan
17.30-18.00	Summary and Concluding remarks